Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-06

THE VOLUNTEERS GETS THE CUP,
 A Pretty Race in Which she New Boai
 Shows Herself Speed1er Than Amy o1
 Her Fast Competitors.
 l NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 5.-The Goelet cuI
 regatta to-day was a success without flaw. l The wind was fresh from the southeast and
 it held good all day without duk6s of any consequence and only Hull about noon when
 a haze came up and threatened for fifteen
 minutes to shut out the whole regatta. The | course was what is known as Sow and Pigs l and Hen and Chickens, which with the pre- l vailing wind gave long beat to windward to Sow and Pigs lightship at the entrance to Vineyard Sound, nineteen miles; a run before the wind across the mouth of the Sound to Hen and Chickens, four and 8 half miles; and reach home seventeen miles long, the finish
 being at Brenton's reef lightship about four
 miles east of the starting line off Beaver Tail.
 Twenty y-one yachts started, of which seven
 were sehooners and the rest sloops including
 the big flyers Volunteer, Mayfower, Puritan,
 Atlantic, Priscilla, the cutters Bedouin
 and Stranger, the sloop Oracle and the new
 Burgess boat Titania. The boats of chief
 interest in the schooner class were the
 Sachem, the new steel schooner Iroquois and
 the Palmer. The Sachem was the favorite
 and she won. The sloop Volunteer, although
 new and untried, this being her maiden race,
 was the favorite of the sloops simply because the master hand of Burgess, who has built the cup winners of two years past, was the Volunteers designer, and the Volunteer won g1oriously The regatta was perhaps as un- eventful as any that has ever been sailed for the Goelet and except for the strong interest concentrated in the performances of the Volunteer and Sachem it would have had little attraction about it.
 The starting gun was fired at quarter-past ten and all of the yachts but tho Gracie, | Stranger, Fanny and Concord and schooner | Resolute got over without handicap. The l Puritan crossed first and led the fleet almost | to Sow and Figs. The Volunteer, Mayfower | and Atlantic were among the last to start, | but they all crept up and as the Volunteer I having to tack she got big lead on the | Puritan, the only boat in the fleet left for her | to pass when Sow and Pigs lightship was reached In the same way the Mayhower caught up with the Puritan. but was unable | to get by her. The Priscilla was left far be- hind the other three big ones. The Puritan's owner, J. Malcolm Forbes, sailed her; the Mayhower was sailed only fairly well by her skipper, Captain Craven; the Priscilla was sailed by her owner, A. Cass Garfield, and the Volunteer did splendid work with Captain Half at the wheel. The Volunteer came in grandly ahead and the other sloops by corrected time fin shed in the following order: Mayhower (8 minutes 42 seconds behind the Volunteer); Atlantic, Puritan and Priscilla. The May lower was not sailed particularly well, but ! on the other hand the Volunteer was badly ! crowded among the schooners on the start md lost time there and it is thought she is at east eight minutes better than the Mayhow ,r. The cutter Bedouin won among the smaller sloops, although of course there was 10 prize for her, the Goelet cups being for schooner and sloop winners without distinc- ion of class The cutter Stranger was second o the Bedouin by good breezes at the last of Ter reach, which sent her well ahead hat if it had not been for the leavy handicap, six minutes, she would lave beaten everything but the Volunteer on corrected time. The new Titania failed of Inything better than third place owing to the Strangers wind pitch. In the schooner class he Palmer started first, and although she rept ahead a little, she failed to gain much 'n her smaller rival who clung to her and roquois did not show up particularly well gainst her two formidable rivals and came n in third place. On board Commodore 4erry's flagship Electra with other guests vas George L. Schuyler, Esq, the only sur lying donor of the Americas cup to the Jew York Yacht club and at one time part wner in the famous America herself. He watched the Volunteers splendid work with
 view to her defending the treasured cup with great interest. The subjoined table els the story of the race in accurate figures: